Two New Blogs

Somehow long before I took this class, I had been getting regular email notices about new and interesting technology articles from a website called SimpleK12. I used to just read them, print them if they were good, or delete them if I didn't really want to keep them for any reason. But today I went poking around and found their blog. The URL for their blog is http://blog.simpleK12.com. It is really a neat site. There are 2 articles/posts that I found of great interest today. One was titled "Is Moodle Secretly Hijacking Your School District's Resources?" As best I understood the article, the author maintains that Moodle as a free "open source software" isn't really free when you count the costs to install, customize, train, and then purchase the supporting hardware you need to run it well. Course I believe the article is on a site that is some kind of company that sells a website service - so it's a bit biased!!!

The second article was titled "Are you REALLY an Ed Tech Leader in Your School/District/State/Country?" It led me to another site of a guy in the United Kingdom (http://www.ictineducation.org) This guy has an interesting project he is dong and blogging about. He calls it "31 Days to Become a Better Ed Tech Leader." He challenges ed tech leaders to give a specific hint to their constituents every day for 31 days. He is modeling examples on his blog of what you might do. There was also an ad on this website for a book titled Amazing Web 2.0 Projects.

Now having done all this poking around, I have to confess I am confused about what's an ordinary website versus what's a blog when I go to some of these sites.